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The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust
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What can we do to ensure that Holocaust memory not only views male suffering but also recognizes women’s special and separate agony?

Contributor:

Joan Miriam Ringelheim

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Date:

1984

Subjects:

Holocaust, Women, Abortion, Sexual violence, Prostitution, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Historical writing
Photo of a line of Jewish women carrying children and belongings.
Proclamation
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Brothers!The slaughter and plunder in Kishinev, the likes of which have not descended upon us since the days of Chmielnicki and Gonta—command us to open our eyes and see our status in this country as…

Contributor:

Ahad Ha-Am, Simon Dubnow, Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski, Chaim Nahman Bialik

Places:

Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Pogroms, Christian-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Sexual violence, Politics, Speeches

Categories:

Political Culture, Speeches
A European Feminist Decries Sex Trafficking in the Ottoman Empire
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911 Dear Mrs. N., I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…

Contributor:

Bertha Pappenheim

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Sexual violence, Prostitution, Women, Human rights, Sephardi, Letters, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand accounts